Particle production by time-dependent meson fields in relativistic heavy ion-collisions

  • According to the Walecka mean field theory of nuclear interaction the collective mutual deceleration of the colliding nuclei gives rise to the bremsstrahlung of real and virtual ! mesons. It is shown that decays of these mesons may give a noticeable contribution to the observed yields of the baryon antibaryon pairs, dileptons and pions. Excitation functions and rapidity distributions of particles produced by this mechanism are calculated under some simplifying assumptions about the space time variation of meson fields in nuclear collisions. The calculated multiplicities of coherently produced particles grow fast with the bombarding energy, reaching a saturation above the RHIC bombarding energy. In the case of central Au+Au collisions the bremsstrahlung mechanism becomes comparable with particle production in incoherent hadron hadron collisions above the AGS energies. The rapidity spectra of antibaryons and pions exhibit a characteristic two hump structure which is a consequence of incomplete projectile target stopping at the initial stage of the reaction. The predicted distribution of e+e pairs has a strong peak at invariant masses Me+e < 0.5 GeV.

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Author:Igor N. MishustinORCiDGND, Leonid M. Satarov, Horst StöckerORCiDGND, Walter GreinerGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-23981
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2006/01/19
Year of first Publication:1996
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2006/01/19
Tag:Kollisionen schwerer Ionen; RHIC; relativistischer Schwerionen-Zusammenstoßer
RHIC; Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; heavy ion collisions
Source:In *Wilderness 1996, Structure of vacuum and elementary matter* 522-52. [hep-ph/9611295]
HeBIS-PPN:185282881
Institutes:Physik / Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht